News
You will find in this section of the website the public reports, articles and news of QUANTUM project.
QUANTUM project was presented at EMEX London
December 04, 2019
In November, the QUANTUM project was presented at EMEX London – the Energy Management Exhibition for the UK. EMEX brought together leading experts, policy makers and suppliers to address energy use and carbon emissions from the building services sector. The QUANTUM tools and overarching quality management process were discussed, highlighting example results and lessons learned from the project’s demonstration buildings. The COPILOT Building Services Certification scheme was also presented, showing how the Performance Test Bench from Synavision contributes to this new Certification route.
Energy consumption, thermal comfort and load match: study of a monitored nearly Zero Energy Building in Mediterranean climate
November 14, 2019
In September, Polytechnic of Milan presented this paper during IAQVEC Conference 2019 dedicated to healthy nearly Zero Energy Buildings.
Click here to download the full paper
Quality Management and Digitalization for Building Performance
December 20, 2018
This technical article was prepared by the chairs of the REHVA-QUANTUM Task Force on Quality Management for Buildings, Ole Teisen, REHVA expert and Chief Consultant at Sweco, and Dr. Stefan Plesser, QUANTUM project coordinator and CEO at synavision.
The article is published on Issue 6/2018 of the REHVA European HVAC Journal, out in December. Click here to read the abstract and download the full paper.
The assessment of the environmental quality directly perceived and experienced by the employees of 69 European Offices
April 15, 2018
This paper, presented at the 10th Windsor Conference – Rethinking Comfort, further extends the analysis of comfort conditions in office buildings carried out with QUANTUM tool Comfortmeter.
Click here to read the abstract and download the full paper.
AMEV Technical Monitoring Guidelines 2017
April 06, 2018
This official recommendation of the German government defines the process from design planning to commissioning and operation with a clear and precise tender document. It specifically addresses builders and managers of public buildings, to whom it provides informative contents about Technical Monitoring services per building phase as well as working documents for tenders’ specifications.
QUANTUM new leaflet
April 2018
The new QUANTUM leaflet was launched in April 2018 at the REHVA Annual Meeting in Brussels.
Download it here!
Evaluation of the indoor environmental quality in 10 office buildings in Greece using a post-occupant evaluation strategy based on the application of a web-based tool
July 20, 2017
This conference paper, presented at SET 2017 in Bologna, reports and discusses the findings collected from a field study in 10 Greek office buildings, where the QUANTUM tool Comfortmeter was used to assess the quality of indoor work environment.
Click here to read the abstract and download the full paper.
An Analysis of the Most Adopted Rating Systems for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Buildings
July 13, 2017
This scientific article, published in “Sustainability” journal, analyses and compares six popular schemes for the assessment of the environmental impact of buildings: BREEAM, CASBEE, DGNB, HQE, LEED and SBTool. The paper shines a light on the implication of rating systems on building design.
Click here to read the abstract and download the full paper.
Report on state-of-the-art of quality management
August 9, 2016
This report creates a comprehensive data base of how quality management is currently used within construction projects in Europe by summarizing relevant existing guidelines, laws and services. You can find additional information on the report and its full version here.
Closing the gaps: the experts' feedback from CLIMA 2016
May 24, 2016
Interesting debates followed QUANTUM workshop at World Congress CLIMA 2016, and the organisers collected feedback from the audience through an on-site poll.
The workshop report can be downloaded here, and it is also available on REHVA website with all the presentations (and photos) of the event.
A Review of Systems and Technologies for Smart Homes and Smart Grids
May 7, 2016
This review article, published by the journal "Energies", explains the concept of the smart home and the advent of the smart grid, then goes on to investigate technologies and systems for smart homes today available on the market, pointing out their advantages and disadvantages. Additional information on the article and its full version are available here.
Guidelines and user contracts for data protection
March 31, 2016
Within the QUANTUM prioject, the Comfortmeter survey tool provides essential management information to improve the physical comfort in an office building, including also some aspects of personal nature of the respondent. The guidelines and user contracts adopted to guarantee data protection are defined in this document.
Guidelines and process structure for quality management
March 31, 2016
Building are unique products that are constructed individually where quality assurance and continuous improvement is a bigger challenge. This short report describes the generic process structure, approaches and tools support which will be used within QUANTUM project to tackle this issue.
30.01.2019
QUANTUM at ISH 2019
Join the workshop "QUANTUM-Project: New Standards, Tools and Services for Quality Management of Building Performance" on 14 March at Messe Frankfurt.
30.01.2019
QUANTUM at futurebuild 2019
Join the workshop session "Quality management for building performance - Lighthouse examples and tools from the QUANTUM methodology" on 5 March in London.
23.01.2019
REHVA-AiCARR workshop "Closing the quality gap: from design to real building”, Venice, 21 February
QUANTUM partner PoliMi-eERG teamed up with REHVA and AiCARR, the Italian Member Association of REHVA, to organize a workshop to discuss about the issue of the performance gap between building design and operational phase.